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The Consolation of Fantasy

In my previous post for The Symbolic World, I tried to show how telling and enjoying fairy tales is not a childish or simple-minded pursuit.

The Silicon Monster

Some years ago, a scandal broke out over whether a young man was cheating in an international chess tournament. Nobody knew for sure, but the strange goings-on suggested other forces at work.

The Way To The Country From Which The Shadows Fall: Part, The Second

This will be the second, and final installment in a short series dealing with The Golden Key 1 by George MacDonald.

The Symbolism of the Pied Piper of Hamelin

Hamelin is a quaint little tourist town in the north-western state of Lower Saxony, Germany.

Turning to Stone

About twelve years ago in a coal mine over half a mile deep beneath Donetsk, in Ukraine, workers found a wheel embedded in the hard sandstone, reckoned by geologists to be about 300 million years old.